Mary Seacole

Mary Seacole
Mary Seacole biography - a profile of Jamaican nurse Mary Seacole, who famously served in the Crimean War.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Title & Foreword
Starting page of Mary Seacole's autobiography, including the table of contents with links to the rest of the chapters.

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 1
My Birth and Parentage — Early Tastes and Travels — Marriage, and Widowhood

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 2
Struggles for Life — The Cholera in Jamaica — I leave Kingston for the Isthmus of Panama — Chagres, Navy Bay, and Gatun — Life in Panama — Up the River Chagres to Gorgona and Cruces

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 3
My Reception at the Independent Hotel — A Cruces Table d'Hôte — Life in Cruces — Amusements of the Crowds — A Novel Four-post Bed

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 4
An Unwelcome Visitor in Cruces — The Cholera — Success of the Yellow Doctress — Fearful Scene at the Mule-owner's — The Burying Parties — The Cholera attacks me

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 5
American Sympathy — I take an Hotel in Cruces — My Customers — Lola Montes — Miss Hayes and the Bishop — Gambling in Cruces — Quarrels amongst the Travellers — New Granadan Military — The Thieves of Cruces — A Narrow Escape

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 6
Migration to Gorgona — Farewell Dinners and Speeches — A Building Speculation — Life in Gorgona — Sympathy with American Slaves — Dr. Casey in Trouble — Floods and Fires — Yankee Independence and Freedom

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 7
The Yellow Fever in Jamaica — My Experience of Death-bed Scenes — I leave again for Navy Bay, and open a Store there — I am attacked with the Gold Fever, and start for Escribanos — Life in the Interior of the Republic of New Granada — (more)

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 8
I long to join the British Army before Sebastopol — My Wanderings about London for that purpose — How I failed — Establishment of the Firm of "Day and Martin" — I Embark for Turkey

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 9
Voyage to Constantinople — Malta — Gibraltar — Constantinople, and what I thought of it — Visit to Scutari Hospital — Miss Nightingale

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 10
"Jew Johnny" — I Start for Balaclava — Kindness of my old Friends — On Board the "Medora" — My Life on Shore — The Sick Wharf

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 11
Alarms in the Harbour — Getting the Stores on Shore — Robbery by Night and Day — The Predatory Tribes of Balaclava — Activity of the Authorities — We obtain leave to erect our Store, and fix upon Spring Hill as its Site — The Turkish Pacha — The Flood — Our Carpenters — I become an English Schoolmistress Abroad

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 12
The British Hotel — Domestic Difficulties — Our Enemies — The Russian Rats — Adventures in Search of a Cat — Light-fingered Zouaves — Crimean Thieves — Powdering a Horse

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 13
My Work in the Crimea

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 14
My Customers at the British Hotel

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 15
My First Glimpse of War — Advance of my Turkish Friends on Kamara — Visitors to the Camp — Miss Nightingale — Mons. Soyer and the Cholera — Summer in the Crimea — "Thirsty Souls" — Death busy in the Trenches

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 16
Under Fire on the fatal 18th of June — Before the Redan — At the Cemetery — The Armistice — Deaths at Head-quarters — Depression in the Camp — Plenty in the Crimea — The Plague of Flies — Under Fire at the Battle of the Tchernaya — Work on the Field — My Patients

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 17
Inside Sebastopol — The Last Bombardment of Sebastopol — On Cathcart's Hill — Rumours in the Camp — The Attack on the Malakhoff — The Old Work again — A Sunday Excursion — Inside "Our" City — I am taken for a Spy, and thereat lose my Temper — I Visit the Redan, etc. — My Share of the Plunder

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 18
Holiday in the Camp — A New Enemy, Time — Amusements in the Crimea — My share in them — Dinner at Spring Hill — At the Races — Christmas-Day in the British Hotel — New Year's Day in the Hospital

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Chapter 19
New Year in the Crimea — Good News — The Armistice — Barter with the Russians — War and Peace — Tidings of Peace — Excursions into the Interior of the Crimea — To Simpheropol, Baktchiserai, etc. — The Troops begin to leave the Crimea — Friends' Farewells — The Cemeteries — We remove from Spring Hill to Balaclava — Alarming Sacrifice of our Stock — A last Glimpse of Sebastopol — Home!

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands - Conclusion
Conclusion of Mary Seacole's autobiography.